I am still around.

So I’m not keeping up with this very well, but really, there’s not much to talk about. My life tends to be pretty boring, but I guess I should have said something about the portfolio review.

The Friday before spring break all of the comm design seniors had to be up in Denton at some ridiculous hour in the morning to drop of our portfolios so the faculty and some other random people they invited could spend all day looking at them and figuring out what point everyone is at so they could give feedback on what they have so far and what they should do in the future. They gave us little forms to write every piece we were going to put in on, which they would then rate and make comments on, and at the bottom they’d  check a box that told us how likely they thought it was that we’d graduate after the semester.

Except me, apparently. I got no grades, no feedback, no graduation prediction or anything. According to the sheet of comments they sent, they think I should be making an illustration portfolio instead. Which just makes me think, “Is my design that bad?” and “So what, all of that other stuff was just a waste of time?” Even if they didn’t think I should do anything with it, it would have been nice of them to give me some feedback on the stuff I’ve done, instead of basically telling me to abandon everything. It was really quite confusing, and a little off-putting.

But I’m pretty much over that now, and plodding along working on portfolio stuff, seeing what sort of pictures I have lying around that I can put in it. Life’s been pretty uneventful lately, so I don’t really have all that much to talk about. I guess I can post some pictures I drew to put in my portfolio/on a website if I ever get around to making one. So here.

Project complete…for now.

Finally finished my book. It actually went over really well in class. Now for the obligatory picture post.

There are pictures here.

Still working on getting Kyle to tell us what’s going on in his life. My life is pretty uninteresting right now, just got the design project going. So here’s an update on that.

I think instead of the accordion fold, I’m likely to backtrack and just do a regular book with Japanese stab binding. This is due to the difficulty inherent in printing something that long. I’m going to have enough trouble getting it done at all, and having such a complicated form will only exacerbate things. It shouldn’t be too hard to rework my layouts, as they are almost in two page spread format already.

In addition to the main book, I am supposed to have a few smaller pieces designed to go with it. I’m probably going to put together a postcard set, wall scrolls, and possibly a shirt of some kind. I was thinking about a book display as well, but I want to talk to the people in my group that are a lot better with three-dimensional design.

I’m still anxiously awaiting translations for the story so I can design the pages properly. In the meantime, here are some illustrations that I’ve done, with the coloring and textures just about finished.